You know the drill – create your product backlog, review it, update the user stories, come up with a sprint goal before the meeting, and finally, review every story in the meeting to decide which ones have to be done. Yes, well-planned sprints are what make a great agile dev team even greater and robust. … Continue reading How to Make your Sprint Planning Really Agile
Smart Checklist For Jira in Native Apps: How to Use it and Keep Track of Tasks Anywhere
Using checklists to track your and your talent’s progress is convenient. Keeping an eye on how all projects are moving to completion gives you confidence that the team is meeting the deadlines. Automating your checklists is even better since you don’t have to write step-by-step workflows for repeated processes. Long story short, the range of … Continue reading Smart Checklist For Jira in Native Apps: How to Use it and Keep Track of Tasks Anywhere
Jira Epic, Story or Task: What to Use and When
Let’s talk about Epics, Stories, and Tasks for a minute. Yes, those in Jira. When working in Jira, you will come across various names, such as Epic, Story, or a Task. In this article, we will explain the difference between each and will provide you with examples of how to use them. What is an … Continue reading Jira Epic, Story or Task: What to Use and When
How to Manage Acceptance Criteria in Jira
The success of a project depends on communication between the dev team and the customer or the stakeholder. The team needs to know how the product or feature is expected to work – this is specifically what the Acceptance Criteria in User Stories in Jira explains. The more detailed description the customer is able to … Continue reading How to Manage Acceptance Criteria in Jira
Using Subtasks and Checklists in Jira
When your Jira Issues are too big or too complex, you can break them down into smaller pieces, Subtasks, and assign different people to each. This gives both you and the assignee a better picture of that main issue's progress. However, if you feel like dividing your Issues is not the ultimate way to organize … Continue reading Using Subtasks and Checklists in Jira
How to Manage Workflow in Jira
There are thousands of hundreds of teams in this world. Big and small, distributed and in-house, software, and non-software. Add to it the fact that no two teams are identical; you'll realize that their workflows also come in all levels of complexity. With Jira's workflows, putting together your custom process is simple, yet so powerful. … Continue reading How to Manage Workflow in Jira
How to Manage the Definition of Done in Jira
In every Scrum team, the Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria (AC) checklists can be compared to a contract between the Product Owner and the dev team. They determine what the PO wants and what the team delivers. According to Scrum Guide, a DoD is defined on a Company or Product level and all teams … Continue reading How to Manage the Definition of Done in Jira